The Boot and Shoe Trades in London and Paris in the Long Eighteenth Century

5.6 Conclusion
This chapter has taken into consideration the relationship between the
changes in demand and retailing in eighteenth-century shoemaking and relevant
changes in production." 7 As Beverly Lemire has observed "modernisation and
diversification within the garment industry predated nineteenth-century sweat
shops, factories and sewing machines; structural re-organisation arose in this
earlier era with the changing scale of demand for Geographical as
well as financial constraints are important elements in contextualising the
changes that affected the organisation of production in the boot and shoe trade
before industrialisation and mechanisation. The role of provincial production in
the London market changed with the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Similarly credit and debit relationships became increasingly complex, blurring
clear divisions between production and retailing.
117 See also S. Chapman, 'The innovating entrepreneurs in the British ready-made clothing
industry', Textile History, XXIV - 1(1993), Pp. 5-25.
118 B. Lemire, Dress, culture and commerce: the English clothing trade before the factory,
1660-1800 (Basingstoke, 1997), p. 56.
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